Governor duplicates of his statements and reports to the Auditor of the War Department, and said duplicates shall be printed in the annual reports of the Adjutant General.
Notice of absence of officer. 4868. Absent, give notice. When any officer shall have occasion to be absent from his usual residence two weeks or more, he shall notify the officer next entitled to the command, and also his next superior officer in command, of his intended absence.
Officers disabled from holding commission. 4869. Any officer convicted by general court-martial, and dismissed from the service, shall be forever disabled thereafter from holding a military commission.
Property to be turned over to successors. 4870. Delivers public property to successor. All officers who shall have in their hands either money, public property or papers received by virtue of their appointments, shall, when they leave their office, pay and deliver the same to their successors in office.
Responsibility and returns of officer receiving property and money. 4871. Accounts for public property. Every officer receiving public property or money for military use shall be accountable for the articles so received by him, and make return of such property or money at such times and in such manner, and on such forms, as may be prescribed. He shall be liable to trial by court-martial upon neglect of duty, and also make good the value of all such property or money defaced, injured, destroyed or lost by any neglect or default on his part, to be recovered in an action at law to be instituted at the order of the Adjutant General. All money received on account of such loss or damage shall be paid to the Paymaster General, and shall be accounted for in his return.
III. Discharges.
Honorable discharge of officer. 4872. Honorable discharge; dismissal. A commissioned officer may be honorably discharged upon tender of resignation, upon disbandment of the organization to which he belongs, upon the report of the board of examination, or for failure to appear before such board when ordered. Officers dismissed. He may be dismissed upon the sentence of a court-martial or conviction in a court of justice of an infamous offense.
Certificates of discharge. 4873. Certificate of, given. Every soldier discharged from the service shall be furnished with a certificate of such discharge, which shall state clearly the reasons therefor. Dishonorable discharges. Dishonorable discharges will have the word “Dishonorable” written or printed diagonally across their faces in large characters with red ink and the re-enlistment clause will be erased by a line.
Honorable discharge of enlisted men.
4874. Honorable. No enlisted man shall be honorably discharged before the expiration of his term of service, except by order of the commander in chief and for the following reasons: Upon his own application, approved by the commanding officer of his company